Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. McFadden got one episode, the seventh-season horror entry 'Genesis,' in which the crew devolves into primitive creatures. She came ...

Gates McFadden played Doctor Beverly Crusher for six seasons on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but her duties tended to keep her in the ship's medical bay and off the bridge. There's a reason for ...

Gates McFadden has an interesting viewpoint on the Picard finale that could leave fans talking for a while! McFadden was always a bright spot in the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Dr. Beverly ...

Star Trek: The Next Generation was no sure thing when it premiered in syndication in 1987. Many of the cast members had their doubts about whether it would even last a single season, including Gates ...

At the end of the first season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," actress Gates McFadden, who played Chief Medical Officer Dr. Beverly Crusher on the U.S.S. Enterprise, was infamously fired from the ...

Gates McFadden had been asking to direct Star Trek: The Next Generation since the first day of production. For most of seven seasons, nobody said yes. When they finally did, Patrick Stewart made it ...

The ‘Star Trek’ actress opens up about what it really took to get behind the camera, and what happened after. Gates McFadden directed one Star Trek: TNG episode after years of being denied ...